A phenotype survey on soybean flower and pod drop conducted by agricultural experts revealed issues such as poor real-time performance and strong subjectivity. Based on the YOLOv5 detection model, a microscale detection layer is added and the size of...
Drought at the flower and pod stage, which is the most moisture-sensitive stage of soybean development, is the main cause of yield loss in soybean. Nitrogen is a vital nutrient for soybeans. The objective of this study was to assess the potential of...
The soybean yield per unit area in Xinjiang has reached a high level, with the crop maturing quickly because of the higher temperatures and levels of mechanization. However, environmental factors cause flowers and pods to shed easily, limiting yield...
Imaging hyperspectral technology is becoming popular in agriculture to provide detailed information on crop growth. In this work, we propose an estimation of rapeseed pod’s water content model and identification of maturity levels (green, yello...
In recent years, the multi-GNSS positioning application is becoming more and more popular, same to the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite precise orbit determination (POD) based on the onboard multi-GNSS measurements. The third-generation Beidou navigat...
The seed-containing pod is the defining structure of plants in the legume family, yet pods exhibit a wide range of morphological variation. Within a species pod characters are likely to be correlated with reproductive strategy, and within cultivated...
Aiming at the problems of high missed-pickup rate and crushed rate caused by different types of peanut harvester pickup drums, by tracking a field comparative experiment from 2020 to 2021, the missed-pickup rate, missed-pickup quality distribution, c...
Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is a widely used linear dimensionality reduction technique, but it often fails to capture critical features in complex nonlinear flows. In contrast, clustering methods are effective for nonlinear feature extracti...
Heat-related traits in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) play a crucial role in reducing the harmful effect of heat stress, as the increase in heat stress is predicted to occur in the coming years due to global warming as a result of climate change. The...
An image processing method that considers pods to be irregular cylinders composed of several oblique cylinder slices with different diameters was proposed to achieve the “highly accurate, highly efficient and large-scale” target of measur...
Accurate soybean pod counting remains a significant challenge in field-based phenotyping due to complex factors such as occlusion, dense distributions, and background interference. We present SmartPod, an advanced deep learning framework that address...
Although the pod color was one of the seven characteristics Mendel studied in peas, the mechanism of color variation in peas with purple pods has not been reported. This study systemically analyzed the difference between two pea accessions with green...
Bud endodormancy represents a pivotal and intricate biological process influenced by both genetic and epigenetic factors, the exact mechanism of which remains elusive. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) functions as a signalling molecule in the regulation of d...
Vegetable soybeans are one of the most important vegetable types in East Asia. The yield of vegetable soybeans is considerably influenced by the size of their pods. To facilitate the understanding of the genetic basis of the pod length and width in v...
Shattering of pods of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is a major cause of seed yield losses prior to and during harvesting. In order to reduce shattering, researchers have been engaged in the development of special preparations that are known as pod...
Fruit pods contain various beneficial compounds that have biological activities and can be used as a source of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products. Although pods or pericarps are usually discarded when consuming the edible parts of fruits, they...
Yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. ssp. sesquipedalis), a subgroup of cowpea, is an important vegetable legume crop of Asia where its young pods are consumed in both fresh and cooked forms. Pod fiber contents (cellulose, hemicellulose and li...
Faba bean is grown globally for human consumption and animal feed and is a significant rotation crop in cereal-dominant areas in many countries, including Australia. It is sensitive to several abiotic stresses, such as drought, frost, and high temper...
Field pea is used for human consumption or as livestock feed. The yield of pea seeds can be significantly decreased due to the genetically determined tendency of peas to pod shattering. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of pod sealant applicati...
The field of green marketing and purchase behaviour has been growing in the last couple of years; consequently, there is a need to understand this behaviour among coffee consumers. Coffee is considered one of the widely consumed beverages in the worl...
Plant mapping was introduced in soybean, but its illustrative capabilities in stress response are yet to be implemented. Methods to track the soybean physiological response are explained in this note by mapping pods in a coordinate system. A growth c...
Cocoa beans are found inside an outer husk; 60% of the cocoa fruit is the outer husk, which is a waste biomass. The husk cannot be used directly as a soil amendment as it promotes the fungal black pod disease, which reduces crop yield. The pods are s...
Color can be an indicator of plant health, quality, and productivity, and is useful to researchers to understand plant nutritional content in their studies. Color may be related to chlorophyll content and photosynthetic activity and provides informat...
In this work, large eddy simulation data is analysed to investigate a new stochastic modeling approach for the wake of a wind turbine. The data is generated by the large eddy simulation (LES) model PALM combined with an actuator disk with rotation re...
Mature soybean pods exhibit high homogeneity in color and texture relative to straw and dead leaves, and instances are often densely occluded, posing significant challenges for accurate field segmentation. To address these challenges, this paper cons...
Caragana intermedia, a leguminous shrub widely distributed in cold and arid regions, is rich in secondary metabolites and natural active substances, with high nutritional and medical values. It is interesting that the pods of C. intermedia often show...
Due to the design of peanut harvesters and cleaners, peanut pods are often mixed with soil, gravel, peanut straw, and other impurities. To solve this problem, this study focused on designing a peanut pod cleaning device by integrating a negative pres...
We address the challenge that occlusions in on-branch soybean images impede accurate pod-level phenotyping. We propose a lab on-branch pipeline that couples a prior-guided synthetic data generator (producing synchronized visible and amodal labels) wi...
The number of soybean pods is a key determinant of soybean yield, making accurate detection and counting essential for yield estimation, cultivation management, and variety selection. Traditional manual counting methods are labor-intensive and time-c...
Pod dehiscence is one of the main factors which play a vital role on the final yield of many crops including soybean and, therefore, it is important to elucidate genetic mechanisms associated with this trait. In this study, morphological, physiologic...
A four-dimensional ensemble variational assimilation system for FY-3A satellite data is constructed using the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD)-based ensemble four-dimensional variational (4DVar) assimilation method (referred to as POD-4DEnVar Sa...
Kubernetes, an open-source container orchestration platform, enables high availability and scalability through diverse autoscaling mechanisms such as Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Vertical Pod Autoscaler and Cluster Autoscaler. Amongst them, HPA h...
Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is a coherent structure identification technique based on either measured or computed data sets. Recently, POD has been adopted for the analysis of the in-cylinder flows inside internal combustion engines. In thi...
Accurate identification of soybean pods is an important prerequisite for obtaining phenotypic traits such as effective pod number and seed number per plant. However, traditional image-processing methods are sensitive to light intensity, and feature-e...
Increasing photosynthetic ability as a whole is essential for acquiring higher crop yields. Nonleaf green organs (NLGOs) make important contributions to photosynthate formation, especially under stress conditions. However, there is little information...
A large seed size in the kabuli chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is important in the market not only due to its high price but also for its superior seedling vigor. The double-podded chickpea has a considerable yield and stability advantage over the sin...
The podded propulsor has gradually become an important propulsion device for high technology ships in recent years because of its characteristics of high maneuverability, high efficiency, low noise, and vibration. The performance of podded propulsor...
Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.), a tropical annual crop, is a highly perishable vegetable. Okra pods deteriorate rapidly after harvesting. The pods undergo physical and physiological changes that diminish storability and quality. The purpose of this...
Vicia faba L. (faba bean) (Fabaceae) is cultivated worldwide as a crop for human consumption. In this study, beans and pods were investigated for their phytochemical content and their potential nutraceutical properties as a strategy to counteract met...
To improve the pod-picking efficiency of the combine harvester for both peanut seedlings and peanuts, a longitudinal axial flow pod-picking device is designed in this study. The fixation and adjustment modes of the pod-picking rod were determined. Th...
Podded propulsors have become a focal point of research in the field of marine propulsion in recent years due to their high efficiency, low noise, and excellent maneuverability. To investigate the acoustic characteristics induced by the flow field of...
Changes in soybean flower and pod numbers are important factors affecting soybean yields. Obtaining the number of flowers and pods, as well as fallen flowers and pods, quickly and accurately is crucial for soybean variety breeding and high-quality an...
Identifying and statistically analyzing soybean pod types are crucial for seed evaluation and yield estimation. Traditional visual assessment by breeding personnel is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to subjective bias, especially with larg...
Moringa oleifera is a plant native to India that is well adapted to warm climates with a high yield and low agronomic requirements. Pods are one of the edible parts of this plant and are commonly consumed in some places, (India, Morocco, etc.) when i...
The development of soybean (Glycine max) is regulated by the photoperiod, with genes related to photoperiod sensitivity primarily focused on the flowering time. However, their roles in post-flowering reproductive development and the mechanisms by whi...
This study aims to investigate the wake of two tandem square cylinders based on the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) analyses of the PIV and hotwire data. The cylinder centre-to-centre spacing ratio L/w examined is from 1.2 to 4.2, covering the...
Fusarium neocosmosporiellum is the main pathogen of peanut pod rot in China. To investigate the type of F. neocosmosporiellum toxin and its pathogenic mechanism, a macrolide, brefeldin A, was isolated. The structure of the compound was identified by...
Podded propulsors are widely used in warships and cruise ships, which have a higher requirement of vibrational and acoustic design. Therefore, studying vibration characteristics and the transmission mechanism of podded propulsor shafting is significa...
The aims of this study were to determine the proximate composition of cacao pod husk as well as the optimal conditions for extraction and purification of theobromine from cacao pod husk. The results indicated that cacao pod husk had high contents of...
In this study, particle image velocimetry was used to measure the fine flow-field characteristics of an L-type podded propulsor in various working conditions. The flow-field details at different cross-sections between the propeller and the inclined b...
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